RE: numbers format in report

[la]

Ben

I re-ran using "SET FORMAT=F12.0" as the first line in my syntax file but
got the same scientific notation numbers in my reports.

Thoughts?

Regards
Luis Avila

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 4:08 PM
To: lavila
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: numbers format in report

lavila <address@hidden> writes:

> In working with a file of ~250 million records, the report ends up with
> scientific notation type numbers like so:
>
> +-----------+-----+---------+-------+-------------+-----------+
> |Value Label|Value|Frequency|Percent|Valid Percent|Cum Percent|
> #===========#=====#=========#=======#=============#===========#
> |           |     | 12274173|   4.59|         4.59|       4.59|
> |           |    F|   1E+008|  51.56|        51.56|      56.15|
> |           |    M|   1E+008|  43.85|        43.85|     100.00|
> #===========#=====#=========#=======#=============#===========#
> |            Total|   3E+008|  100.0|        100.0|           |
> +-----------------+---------+-------+-------------+-----------+
>
> Is there a setting to prevent that and output regular numbers?

If you have a weighting variable, you can control it by setting
the print format of the weighting variable.  Otherwise, you can
control it with e.g. SET FORMAT=F12.0.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org